Animals: He or She?

Su-Lin (Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first
giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs.
William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote
Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield
Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's
zoologists saw no reason to change the designation.

Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of
Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis
had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear...